I was wondering what perl 5.10.0.17 was supposed to be (there was no
formal release since 5.10.0, much less 17 of them), until I noticed that
the link above mentions perl-5.10.0-17 (i.e., release 17 of the Debian
package of perl 5.10.0).

The latest official release of perl is still 5.10.0. I don't know when
5.10.1 will be ready, although chromatic mentioned about a month ago[1]
that it is "on the way" (those following the p5p list may know more).

Debian and Fedora are independent distributions. They may or may not
apply fixes from bleadperl to their packages.

Debian and Fedora are independent distributions. They may or may not
apply fixes from bleadperl to their packages.

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Yes, definitely. I don't use either of those dists and I'd not expect
them to have the same release builds in their Perl packages. I just
saw a report that the bug was fixed for Debian in the 0.17 "package"
build.

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